UL Bringing ‘Adult Supervision’ to IoT--Really?News & Analysis 6/29/2016 2 commentsIn early April when UL launched its new cybersecurity standard, dubbed UL 2900, reactions from the IoT market were split. Three months later, is it proving an extra burden or a benefit to the IoT community?

BASF Sells Its OLED IP to Universal DisplayNews & Analysis 6/29/2016 Post a commentUS-based Universal Display Corporation announced it has acquired the OLED intellectual property assets of German chemical company BASF SE, through its wholly-owned subsidiary UDC Ireland Limited for approximately €87 million.

PCIe 4.0 Heads to Fab, 5.0 to LabNews & Analysis 6/28/2016 2 commentsChips using PCI Express 4.0 are preparing to tape out although the spec isn’t done; work a 5.0 version will start next year targeting 16 or 32 Gbits/second.

How Do You Update 1 Billion IoT Devices?News & Analysis 6/27/2016 5 commentsIoT devices need over-the-air firmware and software updates, but that must be done quickly and securely. Resin.io, which just got $9 million in funding from GE Ventures, Ericsson and others, thinks it has answers to such hard IoT problems.

Atmel Employees Sue, Protest MicrochipNews & Analysis 6/22/2016 7 commentsFormer employees of Atmel in Dresden are suing Microchip for severance while a group in the U.S. is negotiating for similar benefits and a team in Shanghai protested layoffs.

Zero Power Listen-Mode Sensor Debuts News & Analysis 6/22/2016 4 commentsAn acoustic “event-detection” device like Vesper’s new piezoelectric MEMS microphone uses sound energy to wake a system from full power-down mode, thus enabling battery life of a system embedded with the sensor to span not months but years.

Researchers Develop Reliable Rechargable Zinc BatteryNews & Analysis 6/21/2016 4 commentsResearchers from Stanford University and Toyota developed a novel battery design for grid-scale energy storage. The battery has electrodes made of zinc and nickel, inexpensive metals, which are available commercially but few are rechargeable.

FCC Will Vote on 5G Spectrum on July 14News & Analysis 6/21/2016 Post a commentFCC will vote July 14 on new rules to open up high-band spectrum for high-speed, low-latency 5G wireless applications. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler vowed US will be “first out of gate” with 5G.

China Tops U.S. in SupercomputersNews & Analysis 6/20/2016 5 commentsChina built the world’s most powerful supercomputer with chips it designed itself and topped the U.S. for the first time in the number and performance of installed systems.

Daimler Gets ElectrifiedNews & Analysis 6/17/2016 Post a commentLuxury carmaker Daimler intends to add an electric version to all of its model families and develop a specific vehicle architecture for battery-electric cars. Its existing GLC model will be expanded by a new version that combines the fuel cell and the plug-in hybrid approach.

Bluetooth Steps Beyond PANNews & Analysis 6/17/2016 12 commentsWith Bluetooth 5 and mesh chips the former personal area network will extend its reach in home and building automation, challenging Zigbee.

Cavium Buys QLogic for $1BNews & Analysis 6/15/2016 2 commentsCavium will expand from a range of security, comms and server processors and switches into storage and networking with the acquisition for $1 billion of Qlogic.

Mobileye Chief Engineer Explains EyeQ5News & Analysis 6/15/2016 Post a commentWe followed up with Mobileye on what’s inside EyeQ5, and why now. Our discussion ranged from architecture of a driverless car in 2020 to accelerators in the SoC and Google’s recently unveiled custom ASIC for machine learning.